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Biographical entry MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson (c. 1852 - 1917)

Born

c. 1852United Kingdom

Died

1 April 1917

Occupation

Agricultural chemist

Summary

Ralph Waldo E. MacIvor was a highly respected agricultural chemist, lecturer and prolific writer. He is known to have lectured at the University of Melbourne (Chemistry Department), Sydney Technical College (Agriculture Department) and in New Zealand and Scotland. MacIvor was educated in the United Kingdom becoming an Associate (1878) then Fellow (1883) of the Institute of Chemistry GBI and in 1889 became a member of the Society of Chemical Industry.

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MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'MacIvor's Improved Method of Disposing of and Utilizing Night-soil, and Extracting therefrom, and Converting the Same into, Merchantable Commodities (Patent: 20 March, 1886)', in Index to New South Wales Letters of Registration of Inventions, 1854 to July 1887, Government Printer, Sydney, 1891, p. 27. Details